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'To Be an Author' : Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1889-1905 by Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. and Robert C. Leitz III is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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Collected in this volume are the 1889--1905 letters of one of the first African-American literary artists to cross the "color line" into the de facto segregated American publishing industry of the turn of the century. Selected for inclusion are those chronicling the rise of Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), an attorney and businessman in Cleveland, Ohio, who achieved prominence as a novelist, short story writer, essayist, and lecturer despite the obstacles faced by a man of color during the "Jim
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. and Robert C. Leitz III
- Publisher
- Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400864485
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Fiction, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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